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THE CRUCIFIXION OF JOHN DEMJANJUK PROCEEDS ON SCHEDULE
by Michael Hoffman | Nov. 12, 2010
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2010/11/crucifixion-of-john-demjanjuk-proceeds.html
Mercy is the essence of Christianity and revenge is the essence of
Judaism. This is the great distinction between the two. Here below,
Zionist reporter A.J. "Gruesome" Goldmann revels in John Demjanjuk's
hideous judicial torture in Zionist Germany. Mr. Goldmann is either too
arrogant or too obtuse to understand how shocking to non-Talmudists is
this prolonged torture of an ailing 90-year-old Christian and the extent
to which his torment is gleefully celebrated by rabbis, Zionists and
ghouls like Goldmann. (Goldmann insinuates that Demjanjuk is not ill:
"Demjanjuk's health issues...possibly fabricated to gain the court's
sympathy...").
All that the never-forgive sadists have on the hapless
Ukrainian-American, after decades of prosecution (including "Holocaust
survivors" lying under oath and swearing he was Treblinka's "Ivan the
Terrible"), is to claim he was a lowly guard at Sobibor, on the judicial
theory that anyone who worked at Sobibor is a war criminal (with the
exception of Judaics doingkapo-like jobs).
Of the tens of thousands of Israeli war criminals and many times that
number of Judaic-Communist war criminals, including Solomon Morel who
was harbored in the Israeli state, not one has ever faced a war crimes
tribunal. Not one! They are all immune; rendered invulnerable by virtue
of their sainted ethnicity. Consequently, what we see transpiring in a
German kangaroo court against Demjanjuk is international Talmudic
supremacy in full flower. Christianity has been defanged.
The proof is a spectacle like this one, wherein crypto-rabbis bearing
titles such as bishop, cardinal and pope are as mute as moth-eaten
carnival puppets. The last vestiges of their thundering medieval
anathemas are reserved solely for Muslim outrages, even though none of
these latter-day crusaders investigates the covert role of western
intelligence agencies in shaping and manipulating Al-Qaeda-type groups
into betraying Islam's centuries-old proscriptions against harming
civilians or committing suicide.
There is no powerful businessman, media executive or judge anywhere in
the non-Muslim, non-Arab world who attempts to expose Judaic supremacy.
In attacking George Soros as one of the many Judaic collaborators with
the Nazis, Glenn Beck competes with the ADL, to see who can be more
philo-Judaic. The ADL explains that as a teenager at the time, Soros
can't be blamed for anti-Judaic activity; while Mr. Beck insists that he
should be, for the sake of unnamed Judaics whose welfare is always the
supreme object of Beck's adoration. Even when they tell the truth about
a Nazi collaborator like billionaire Soros, bigshots on the American
Right such as Glenn Beck have to frame it in the most servile shades of
Judaic-worship.
Here below, in Goldmann's piece, we see the result of decades of
cowardice and groveling -- and it didn't start with Demjanjuk! Who
remembers anymore that in 1986, Pat Buchanan's plaster saint, President
Ronald Reagan, keelhauled 86-year-old anti-communist Andrija Artukovic
to Communist Yugolslavia on a hospital gurney? All is forgotten, Ronnie,
your icon still shines in the living rooms of amnesiacs.
After the Israeli mass murder in Jenin in Palestine, when the Israelis
were threatened with a war crimes investigation, Israeli leader Shimon
Peres, himself a mass murderer, declared, "No one will judge Israel!"
How right he was. From Reagan to Beck, the heroes of the Right, as much
as the Marxists and Socialists of the Left, never have managed to
"judge" a single war criminal from among the "Holy People." Meanwhile,
we sit on our hands as Demanjauk is wheeled on a hospital bedinto a
German courtroomday after day, to the absolute unalloyed joy and
applause of the Goldmanns of the world.
Do me one favor, folks. Don't blame the Zionists for this state of
affairs. We are to blame! We, the gutless wimps who have not
one-thousandth of the solidarity, vision, fearlessness, tenacity and
organization of our enemies. I don't believe in Darwin's evolutionary
doctrine, or in his "survival of the fittest" theory. But if I did
believe in it, as many "white nationalist" Rightists do, I would be
forced to concede that it is Judaics who are the fittest survivors of
the evolutionary muck and mire.
If they don't awaken, then the so-called Aryans are heading for the
trash dump of history where they will fulfill the only
testosterone-fueled role still open to them in a kashrutworld as
rabbinic golem against the Muslims and Arabs. In that realm they are
still permitted to exhibit all the lusty aggression and racial and
religious animosities of the past.
Meanwhile, the crucifixion of John Demjanjuk proceeds seamlessly, day by
day, in the cozy confines of a Munich courtroom, business as usual in
the eternal enterprise that is rabbinic revenge.
Hoffman's work is funded solely by donations and the sale of his books,
newsletters and lectures.
DEMJANJUK'S LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE NEARS A MURKY END
By A.J. Goldmann | Forward
Published November 10, 2010 - issue of November 19, 2010
EXCERPT: "In a moment that was almost contemptible, he (Demjanjuk's
defense attorney) asked whether, in addition to the lists of Jews put on
the trains bound for Sobibor, there were lists confirming that these
Jews ever actually arrived at the camp. The question met with groans of
disbelief."
The day I arrive in Munich is dismal and gray. One of the jewels in
Germany's crown, the Bavarian capital does not impress on a day like
this. Rather, the Glockenspiel at Marienplatz, and the elegant shopping
boulevard Maximilianstrasse seem dull and lifeless. Inside, the beer
halls are bustling. No wonder they are the only islands of cheer on
this October day.
For the past 27 years, justice has pursued John Demjanjuk. Now, in
Munich, German prosecutors are having a last go at the 90-year-old
retired American autoworker and alleged guard at Nazi death camps during
World War II.
This is a prosecution that features something unprecedented. Over three
decades, Demjanjuk has undergone two long denationalization and
deportation proceedings in the United States and a lengthy trial in
Israel. But the man once pegged as the notorious Ivan the Terrible of
Treblinka a sadistic perpetrator of mass atrocities has never been
tied beyond reasonable doubt to any specific criminal act.
And so, in what is almost surely one of the last Nazi war crimes trials
that will take place on German soil, prosecutors are seeking to persuade
the current court of a simpler allegation: that Demjanjuk was a prison
guard at Sobibor death camp one of many in concentration camps
throughout Europe and that this constituted a war crime independent of
any specific criminal act Demjanjuk may or may not have committed in
essence, that Demjanjuk is guilty of being in the wrongest of places at
the wrongest of times.
"It is really something new about the Munich trial," wrote Michael Koch,
one of Demjanjuk's prosecutors, in an e-mail to the Forward. "The
prosecution in former days always looked for specific actions in order
to bring Nazi criminals to justice."
The trial, which started last November and is expected to last until
spring 2011, has been delayed time and again by Demjanjuk's health
issues, some possibly fabricated to gain the court's sympathy. This
trial offers nothing like the concision of a "Law & Order" episode.
Still, I had a genuine shock when I entered the Munich regional court
the day of the 50th session. I was expecting John Grisham, and I got
Samuel Beckett. Absurdities, oddities and complexities abound in this
case, and one feels a palpable sense of disconnect between the laudable
goal of bringing an alleged Nazi criminal to justice and the humdrum
grind of a long trial that itself comes only after a much longer and
very cloudy legal trail now sputtering and slouching to an uncertain
endpoint.
Demjanjuk was born Ivan Mykolayovych Demianiuk in Ukraine in 1920. He
served as a soldier in the Red Army during World War II, and in 1942 he
became a German prisoner of war. On these things, all agree.It is also
uncontested that in 1952, Demjanjuk arrived in America with his wife and
child, settling first in Indiana and then in Ohio. Twenty-five years
later, the Justice Department initiated proceedings to strip him of his
citizenship, citing his alleged concealment of his involvement in war
crimes at the Nazi death camps at Majdanek, Sobibor and Flossenbrg.
Relying on eyewitnesses and on identity documents supplied by the Soviet
Union, the federal prosecutors contended that Demjanjuk was, in fact,
"Ivan the Terrible," a kapo, or notorious prisoner-turned-guard, at the
Treblinka and Sobibor camps, a man known to have committed numerous
murders and acts of savage violence against camp prisoners during 1942
and 1943.
Between 1977 and 1988, Demanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship and
extradited to Israel, where he was tried and found guilty of war crimes
as Ivan, the Treblinka kapo.
During his trial, several former camp prisoners identified Demjanjuk as
"Ivan" of Treblinka. Demjanjuk claimed he was never anything other than
a prisoner of war after his capture. But he also admitted that the scar
under his armpit that had denoted his blood type was a n SS marking that
he removed after the war.
Then, during Demjanjuk's appeals process, the Soviet Union fell, and
suddenly Soviet archives brought forth new evidence: the written
statements of 37 former guards at Treblinka who identified Ivan the
Terrible as one Ivan Marchenko, not Ivan Demjanjuk.
American officials, it turned out, had originally been aware of the
testimony of two of these German guards but had never informed the
defense a fact that later led a U.S. appeals court to rule that
Demjanjuk had been a victim of prosecutorial misconduct, even as it also
found the evidence was convincing that Demjanjuk had been a lesser SS
figure or camp guard.
After the emergence of these archival statements, the Israeli Supreme
Court reversed Demjanjuk's conviction, citing the "gnawing" new evidence
of mistaken identity. But the Supreme Court judges also found other
facts "proved the appellant's participation in the extermination
process" as a guard. "The matter is closed but not complete, the
complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge," the court
wrote.
Demjanjuk was returned to the United States, and his citizenship was
restored until 1999, when the Justice Department initiated a new effort
to denationalize and deport him. This time, federal prosecutors alleged
simply that he had entered the country while concealing his service as a
guard at Sobibor and Majdanek. Demjanjuk lost his last appeal in 2008,
and in 2009 Germany sought his extradition from the U.S. to stand trial
in Munich.
In the Munich trial, Demjanjuk has been indicted for being an accessory
to 28,060 counts of murder. The prosecution is putting together a case
that describes the Sobibor killings as a single project that
collectively implicated everyone employed there even low-ranking guards
and auxiliaries, the cogs in the Nazi killing machine in the exclusive
purpose of mass extermination.
To do this, however, requires proving that Sobibor, during the time
Demjanjuk is said to have worked there, was strictly and solely a
factory for death. Once that is shown, it needs to be established beyond
reasonable doubt that Demjanjuk in fact served there. Demjanjuk
continues to deny having ever been a guard anywhere.
The sessions I saw were sparsely attended. Demjanjuk was wheeled into
court in a hospital bed. He wore sunglasses and a baseball cap and was
partially covered by a green blanket. Throughout the session, he barely
moved or made a sound. During rare moments of silence in the courtroom,
his low moans could be heard. It was difficult to determine whether the
defendant could even follow the proceedings.
Among the co-plaintiffs are four survivors of Sobibor and 23 Dutch
first-degree relatives of victims from the camp. Two of the Dutch
co-plaintiffs were present during my dates in court. For them, this
trial is about both fulfilling an ethical obligation and achieving
personal catharsis.
Psychologist Robert Wurms, one-time chairman of the Central Jewish Board
of the Netherlands, said that there is an obligation to mete out justice
regardless of the accused's age: "He committed crimes in this system and
took lives on an industrial scale. We can't be indifferent to that."
Robert Fransman, a former salesman, who, like Wurms, lost multiple
family members during the war, added a personal reflection. "The
Holocaust is about big numbers, but the names of Rachel Fransman and
Isaac Fransman are never named. When I heard the judge call the names of
my sister, whom I never knew, or my parents, whom I never knew, it was
like Kaddish," said Fransman, who is blogging the trial for a Dutch
radio station's website.
But at the start of the session on October 25, Ulrich Busch, Demjanjuk's
defense lawyer, frantically waved in the air an article discussing a
just released report on the German Foreign Ministry's role in the
Holocaust. "Why are you prosecuting a 90-year-old man who's near to
death when you still have Nazis right here in Germany?" he shouted at
the presiding judge, Ralph Alt, with whom he sparred often and loudly
during the morning session.
From the opening of the trial last November, Busch has claimed that
Germany has handpicked Demjanjuk as a scapegoat for its own crimes.
"Germany still gives to all Germans who were in lower ranks and took
part in the extermination of Jews de facto amnesty. They only pick out
Mr. Demjanjuk from the States, and they persecute only him. First, they
have to clear the situation with their own people before they start
bringing people from other nations to court in Germany," he told me in
the hallway during a break from the session. His vehemence impressed me,
but it also seemed a continuation of his earlier performance in court.
Angelika Benz, a 29-year-old doctoral candidate at the Technical
University of Berlin who is writing her dissertation on Trawniki, the
camp at which Demjanjuk allegedly trained, finds some truth to Busch's
claim. "If you think about the German perpetrators, they were well
integrated in the after-war society. So if you now try to get them, you
will find well-honored people. If you go in a little village near
Munich, for example, maybe it would be [a retired] mayor. And then if
you try to get that person in front of a trial, you would have a problem
with the whole society. He would be a neighbor, a friend, a father," she
said.
For Wurms, however, the trial is a sign of the long way Germany has come
in the past 65 years. "You have to compare this trial to the trials from
after the war. I think this generation of judges and lawyers is totally
different from the generation after the war. And you can feel and hear
from them how ashamed they are of how Germany dealt with those criminals
and didn't convict them, or gave slight punishments. This is also a
revolution of the new generation against the old generation. It must
have a base in society and general feeling," he explained.
On my second day in court, Demjanjuk failed to show up on time, claiming
physical distress. When court doctor Albrecht Stein reported that he
couldn't find anything wrong with him, Judge Alt ordered Demjanjuk to
present himself for the afternoon session.
While waiting for Demjanjuk to arrive, I ran over to the Altstadt to
meet with Aaron Buck, the press officer for Munich's Jewish community.
As I entered, Buck handed me a photo from a German tabloid, which showed
Demjanjuk in his hospital bed. "These pictures don't help us to talk
about the real important things," he said, adding that such images
resonate with those who are fed up with discussions of Germany's wartime
crimes. The situation would be even worse, he felt, if Demjanjuk himself
were German. "If he was presenting his testimony in German, and people
saw that this German grandfather was on trial, I think that many Germans
would sympathize more with him," he explained.
Buck suggested that the trial might be more significant for Germany as a
whole than for the Jewish community. "It's a good end of the story. It's
not that you can run away and live in Argentina or whatever. So I think
it's important for Germany, but for the Jews, he's just one of thousands
who finally were found," Buck said, adding that Munich's 9,000 Jews are
more concerned with contemporary issues than with digging into the past.
Demjanjuk eventually arrived from Stadelheim Prison at 1 p.m. The day's
witness was a lawyer from The Hague, Regina Grter, who testified about
the Westerbork database, a compendium of information on the transports
of Dutch Jews to Sobibor. Busch seemed intent on wasting as much time as
possible on irrelevant questions. By now, everyone in court seemed to be
fed up with his stalling techniques, and Alt forcibly shut him up at
several points.
Since it is crucial for the prosecution to show that all the Jews
delivered to Sobibor in the summer of 1943 were marked for death, Busch
tried any tack he could to dispute the relevance of these transport
lists. In a moment that was almost contemptible, he asked whether, in
addition to the lists of Jews put on the trains bound for Sobibor, there
were lists confirming that these Jews ever actually arrived at the camp.
The question met with groans of disbelief. Periodically, Dr. Stein who
with his handlebar mustache, ratty hair and blazer-with-jeans combo
looked like he just wandered out of a Fassbinder film, administered
painkillers to his patient.
"The best thing that could happen to him, in my opinion, is that he
could stay in prison, because he's very well taken care of," Fransman
said. "In the absolutely unthinkable case that he's acquitted, it would
be a disaster for him, because no country wants him. There's no place
for him on earth."
Surprisingly, I heard similar sentiments from Demjanjuk's defense
lawyer. "He would be in a terrible situation if he was acquitted," Busch
confided to me.
For Fransman, the main point is not the sentence; it's the verdict. "I
want the court to say 'guilty' as far as I'm concerned, with no penalty
at all," he said, noting that "the last 27 years of his life, he has
been in and out of court, and his life is so miserable."
In the German system, three years is the minimum sentence for accessory
to murder. "So he will get three years; that's my opinion," Fransman
said. "And for him, he should hope to die in those three years."
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Subject: Demjanjuk's Crucifixion Continues
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THE CRUCIFIXION OF JOHN DEMJANJUK PROCEEDS ON SCHEDULE
by Michael Hoffman | Nov. 12, 2010
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2010/11/crucifixion-of-john-demjanjuk-proceeds.html
Mercy is the essence of Christianity and revenge is the essence of
Judaism. This is the great distinction between the two. Here below,
Zionist reporter A.J. "Gruesome" Goldmann revels in John Demjanjuk's
hideous judicial torture in Zionist Germany. Mr. Goldmann is either too
arrogant or too obtuse to understand how shocking to non-Talmudists is
this prolonged torture of an ailing 90-year-old Christian and the extent
to which his torment is gleefully celebrated by rabbis, Zionists and
ghouls like Goldmann. (Goldmann insinuates that Demjanjuk is not ill:
"Demjanjuk's health issues...possibly fabricated to gain the court's
sympathy...").
All that the never-forgive sadists have on the hapless
Ukrainian-American, after decades of prosecution (including "Holocaust
survivors" lying under oath and swearing he was Treblinka's "Ivan the
Terrible"), is to claim he was a lowly guard at Sobibor, on the judicial
theory that anyone who worked at Sobibor is a war criminal (with the
exception of Judaics doingkapo-like jobs).
Of the tens of thousands of Israeli war criminals and many times that
number of Judaic-Communist war criminals, including Solomon Morel who
was harbored in the Israeli state, not one has ever faced a war crimes
tribunal. Not one! They are all immune; rendered invulnerable by virtue
of their sainted ethnicity. Consequently, what we see transpiring in a
German kangaroo court against Demjanjuk is international Talmudic
supremacy in full flower. Christianity has been defanged.
The proof is a spectacle like this one, wherein crypto-rabbis bearing
titles such as bishop, cardinal and pope are as mute as moth-eaten
carnival puppets. The last vestiges of their thundering medieval
anathemas are reserved solely for Muslim outrages, even though none of
these latter-day crusaders investigates the covert role of western
intelligence agencies in shaping and manipulating Al-Qaeda-type groups
into betraying Islam's centuries-old proscriptions against harming
civilians or committing suicide.
There is no powerful businessman, media executive or judge anywhere in
the non-Muslim, non-Arab world who attempts to expose Judaic supremacy.
In attacking George Soros as one of the many Judaic collaborators with
the Nazis, Glenn Beck competes with the ADL, to see who can be more
philo-Judaic. The ADL explains that as a teenager at the time, Soros
can't be blamed for anti-Judaic activity; while Mr. Beck insists that he
should be, for the sake of unnamed Judaics whose welfare is always the
supreme object of Beck's adoration. Even when they tell the truth about
a Nazi collaborator like billionaire Soros, bigshots on the American
Right such as Glenn Beck have to frame it in the most servile shades of
Judaic-worship.
Here below, in Goldmann's piece, we see the result of decades of
cowardice and groveling -- and it didn't start with Demjanjuk! Who
remembers anymore that in 1986, Pat Buchanan's plaster saint, President
Ronald Reagan, keelhauled 86-year-old anti-communist Andrija Artukovic
to Communist Yugolslavia on a hospital gurney? All is forgotten, Ronnie,
your icon still shines in the living rooms of amnesiacs.
After the Israeli mass murder in Jenin in Palestine, when the Israelis
were threatened with a war crimes investigation, Israeli leader Shimon
Peres, himself a mass murderer, declared, "No one will judge Israel!"
How right he was. From Reagan to Beck, the heroes of the Right, as much
as the Marxists and Socialists of the Left, never have managed to
"judge" a single war criminal from among the "Holy People." Meanwhile,
we sit on our hands as Demanjauk is wheeled on a hospital bedinto a
German courtroomday after day, to the absolute unalloyed joy and
applause of the Goldmanns of the world.
Do me one favor, folks. Don't blame the Zionists for this state of
affairs. We are to blame! We, the gutless wimps who have not
one-thousandth of the solidarity, vision, fearlessness, tenacity and
organization of our enemies. I don't believe in Darwin's evolutionary
doctrine, or in his "survival of the fittest" theory. But if I did
believe in it, as many "white nationalist" Rightists do, I would be
forced to concede that it is Judaics who are the fittest survivors of
the evolutionary muck and mire.
If they don't awaken, then the so-called Aryans are heading for the
trash dump of history where they will fulfill the only
testosterone-fueled role still open to them in a kashrutworld as
rabbinic golem against the Muslims and Arabs. In that realm they are
still permitted to exhibit all the lusty aggression and racial and
religious animosities of the past.
Meanwhile, the crucifixion of John Demjanjuk proceeds seamlessly, day by
day, in the cozy confines of a Munich courtroom, business as usual in
the eternal enterprise that is rabbinic revenge.
Hoffman's work is funded solely by donations and the sale of his books,
newsletters and lectures.
DEMJANJUK'S LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE NEARS A MURKY END
By A.J. Goldmann | Forward
Published November 10, 2010 - issue of November 19, 2010
EXCERPT: "In a moment that was almost contemptible, he (Demjanjuk's
defense attorney) asked whether, in addition to the lists of Jews put on
the trains bound for Sobibor, there were lists confirming that these
Jews ever actually arrived at the camp. The question met with groans of
disbelief."
The day I arrive in Munich is dismal and gray. One of the jewels in
Germany's crown, the Bavarian capital does not impress on a day like
this. Rather, the Glockenspiel at Marienplatz, and the elegant shopping
boulevard Maximilianstrasse seem dull and lifeless. Inside, the beer
halls are bustling. No wonder they are the only islands of cheer on
this October day.
For the past 27 years, justice has pursued John Demjanjuk. Now, in
Munich, German prosecutors are having a last go at the 90-year-old
retired American autoworker and alleged guard at Nazi death camps during
World War II.
This is a prosecution that features something unprecedented. Over three
decades, Demjanjuk has undergone two long denationalization and
deportation proceedings in the United States and a lengthy trial in
Israel. But the man once pegged as the notorious Ivan the Terrible of
Treblinka a sadistic perpetrator of mass atrocities has never been
tied beyond reasonable doubt to any specific criminal act.
And so, in what is almost surely one of the last Nazi war crimes trials
that will take place on German soil, prosecutors are seeking to persuade
the current court of a simpler allegation: that Demjanjuk was a prison
guard at Sobibor death camp one of many in concentration camps
throughout Europe and that this constituted a war crime independent of
any specific criminal act Demjanjuk may or may not have committed in
essence, that Demjanjuk is guilty of being in the wrongest of places at
the wrongest of times.
"It is really something new about the Munich trial," wrote Michael Koch,
one of Demjanjuk's prosecutors, in an e-mail to the Forward. "The
prosecution in former days always looked for specific actions in order
to bring Nazi criminals to justice."
The trial, which started last November and is expected to last until
spring 2011, has been delayed time and again by Demjanjuk's health
issues, some possibly fabricated to gain the court's sympathy. This
trial offers nothing like the concision of a "Law & Order" episode.
Still, I had a genuine shock when I entered the Munich regional court
the day of the 50th session. I was expecting John Grisham, and I got
Samuel Beckett. Absurdities, oddities and complexities abound in this
case, and one feels a palpable sense of disconnect between the laudable
goal of bringing an alleged Nazi criminal to justice and the humdrum
grind of a long trial that itself comes only after a much longer and
very cloudy legal trail now sputtering and slouching to an uncertain
endpoint.
Demjanjuk was born Ivan Mykolayovych Demianiuk in Ukraine in 1920. He
served as a soldier in the Red Army during World War II, and in 1942 he
became a German prisoner of war. On these things, all agree.It is also
uncontested that in 1952, Demjanjuk arrived in America with his wife and
child, settling first in Indiana and then in Ohio. Twenty-five years
later, the Justice Department initiated proceedings to strip him of his
citizenship, citing his alleged concealment of his involvement in war
crimes at the Nazi death camps at Majdanek, Sobibor and Flossenbrg.
Relying on eyewitnesses and on identity documents supplied by the Soviet
Union, the federal prosecutors contended that Demjanjuk was, in fact,
"Ivan the Terrible," a kapo, or notorious prisoner-turned-guard, at the
Treblinka and Sobibor camps, a man known to have committed numerous
murders and acts of savage violence against camp prisoners during 1942
and 1943.
Between 1977 and 1988, Demanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship and
extradited to Israel, where he was tried and found guilty of war crimes
as Ivan, the Treblinka kapo.
During his trial, several former camp prisoners identified Demjanjuk as
"Ivan" of Treblinka. Demjanjuk claimed he was never anything other than
a prisoner of war after his capture. But he also admitted that the scar
under his armpit that had denoted his blood type was a n SS marking that
he removed after the war.
Then, during Demjanjuk's appeals process, the Soviet Union fell, and
suddenly Soviet archives brought forth new evidence: the written
statements of 37 former guards at Treblinka who identified Ivan the
Terrible as one Ivan Marchenko, not Ivan Demjanjuk.
American officials, it turned out, had originally been aware of the
testimony of two of these German guards but had never informed the
defense a fact that later led a U.S. appeals court to rule that
Demjanjuk had been a victim of prosecutorial misconduct, even as it also
found the evidence was convincing that Demjanjuk had been a lesser SS
figure or camp guard.
After the emergence of these archival statements, the Israeli Supreme
Court reversed Demjanjuk's conviction, citing the "gnawing" new evidence
of mistaken identity. But the Supreme Court judges also found other
facts "proved the appellant's participation in the extermination
process" as a guard. "The matter is closed but not complete, the
complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge," the court
wrote.
Demjanjuk was returned to the United States, and his citizenship was
restored until 1999, when the Justice Department initiated a new effort
to denationalize and deport him. This time, federal prosecutors alleged
simply that he had entered the country while concealing his service as a
guard at Sobibor and Majdanek. Demjanjuk lost his last appeal in 2008,
and in 2009 Germany sought his extradition from the U.S. to stand trial
in Munich.
In the Munich trial, Demjanjuk has been indicted for being an accessory
to 28,060 counts of murder. The prosecution is putting together a case
that describes the Sobibor killings as a single project that
collectively implicated everyone employed there even low-ranking guards
and auxiliaries, the cogs in the Nazi killing machine in the exclusive
purpose of mass extermination.
To do this, however, requires proving that Sobibor, during the time
Demjanjuk is said to have worked there, was strictly and solely a
factory for death. Once that is shown, it needs to be established beyond
reasonable doubt that Demjanjuk in fact served there. Demjanjuk
continues to deny having ever been a guard anywhere.
The sessions I saw were sparsely attended. Demjanjuk was wheeled into
court in a hospital bed. He wore sunglasses and a baseball cap and was
partially covered by a green blanket. Throughout the session, he barely
moved or made a sound. During rare moments of silence in the courtroom,
his low moans could be heard. It was difficult to determine whether the
defendant could even follow the proceedings.
Among the co-plaintiffs are four survivors of Sobibor and 23 Dutch
first-degree relatives of victims from the camp. Two of the Dutch
co-plaintiffs were present during my dates in court. For them, this
trial is about both fulfilling an ethical obligation and achieving
personal catharsis.
Psychologist Robert Wurms, one-time chairman of the Central Jewish Board
of the Netherlands, said that there is an obligation to mete out justice
regardless of the accused's age: "He committed crimes in this system and
took lives on an industrial scale. We can't be indifferent to that."
Robert Fransman, a former salesman, who, like Wurms, lost multiple
family members during the war, added a personal reflection. "The
Holocaust is about big numbers, but the names of Rachel Fransman and
Isaac Fransman are never named. When I heard the judge call the names of
my sister, whom I never knew, or my parents, whom I never knew, it was
like Kaddish," said Fransman, who is blogging the trial for a Dutch
radio station's website.
But at the start of the session on October 25, Ulrich Busch, Demjanjuk's
defense lawyer, frantically waved in the air an article discussing a
just released report on the German Foreign Ministry's role in the
Holocaust. "Why are you prosecuting a 90-year-old man who's near to
death when you still have Nazis right here in Germany?" he shouted at
the presiding judge, Ralph Alt, with whom he sparred often and loudly
during the morning session.
From the opening of the trial last November, Busch has claimed that
Germany has handpicked Demjanjuk as a scapegoat for its own crimes.
"Germany still gives to all Germans who were in lower ranks and took
part in the extermination of Jews de facto amnesty. They only pick out
Mr. Demjanjuk from the States, and they persecute only him. First, they
have to clear the situation with their own people before they start
bringing people from other nations to court in Germany," he told me in
the hallway during a break from the session. His vehemence impressed me,
but it also seemed a continuation of his earlier performance in court.
Angelika Benz, a 29-year-old doctoral candidate at the Technical
University of Berlin who is writing her dissertation on Trawniki, the
camp at which Demjanjuk allegedly trained, finds some truth to Busch's
claim. "If you think about the German perpetrators, they were well
integrated in the after-war society. So if you now try to get them, you
will find well-honored people. If you go in a little village near
Munich, for example, maybe it would be [a retired] mayor. And then if
you try to get that person in front of a trial, you would have a problem
with the whole society. He would be a neighbor, a friend, a father," she
said.
For Wurms, however, the trial is a sign of the long way Germany has come
in the past 65 years. "You have to compare this trial to the trials from
after the war. I think this generation of judges and lawyers is totally
different from the generation after the war. And you can feel and hear
from them how ashamed they are of how Germany dealt with those criminals
and didn't convict them, or gave slight punishments. This is also a
revolution of the new generation against the old generation. It must
have a base in society and general feeling," he explained.
On my second day in court, Demjanjuk failed to show up on time, claiming
physical distress. When court doctor Albrecht Stein reported that he
couldn't find anything wrong with him, Judge Alt ordered Demjanjuk to
present himself for the afternoon session.
While waiting for Demjanjuk to arrive, I ran over to the Altstadt to
meet with Aaron Buck, the press officer for Munich's Jewish community.
As I entered, Buck handed me a photo from a German tabloid, which showed
Demjanjuk in his hospital bed. "These pictures don't help us to talk
about the real important things," he said, adding that such images
resonate with those who are fed up with discussions of Germany's wartime
crimes. The situation would be even worse, he felt, if Demjanjuk himself
were German. "If he was presenting his testimony in German, and people
saw that this German grandfather was on trial, I think that many Germans
would sympathize more with him," he explained.
Buck suggested that the trial might be more significant for Germany as a
whole than for the Jewish community. "It's a good end of the story. It's
not that you can run away and live in Argentina or whatever. So I think
it's important for Germany, but for the Jews, he's just one of thousands
who finally were found," Buck said, adding that Munich's 9,000 Jews are
more concerned with contemporary issues than with digging into the past.
Demjanjuk eventually arrived from Stadelheim Prison at 1 p.m. The day's
witness was a lawyer from The Hague, Regina Grter, who testified about
the Westerbork database, a compendium of information on the transports
of Dutch Jews to Sobibor. Busch seemed intent on wasting as much time as
possible on irrelevant questions. By now, everyone in court seemed to be
fed up with his stalling techniques, and Alt forcibly shut him up at
several points.
Since it is crucial for the prosecution to show that all the Jews
delivered to Sobibor in the summer of 1943 were marked for death, Busch
tried any tack he could to dispute the relevance of these transport
lists. In a moment that was almost contemptible, he asked whether, in
addition to the lists of Jews put on the trains bound for Sobibor, there
were lists confirming that these Jews ever actually arrived at the camp.
The question met with groans of disbelief. Periodically, Dr. Stein who
with his handlebar mustache, ratty hair and blazer-with-jeans combo
looked like he just wandered out of a Fassbinder film, administered
painkillers to his patient.
"The best thing that could happen to him, in my opinion, is that he
could stay in prison, because he's very well taken care of," Fransman
said. "In the absolutely unthinkable case that he's acquitted, it would
be a disaster for him, because no country wants him. There's no place
for him on earth."
Surprisingly, I heard similar sentiments from Demjanjuk's defense
lawyer. "He would be in a terrible situation if he was acquitted," Busch
confided to me.
For Fransman, the main point is not the sentence; it's the verdict. "I
want the court to say 'guilty' as far as I'm concerned, with no penalty
at all," he said, noting that "the last 27 years of his life, he has
been in and out of court, and his life is so miserable."
In the German system, three years is the minimum sentence for accessory
to murder. "So he will get three years; that's my opinion," Fransman
said. "And for him, he should hope to die in those three years."
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